Federal Judges Aren’t Subject To Workplace Harassment Laws
Aliza Shatzman spoke with Carrie Johnson on NPR Politics Podcast about the prevalence of sexual harassment and other misconduct in the federal judiciary, and what needs to change to ensure safe work environments for law clerks.
The Legal Accountability Project with Aliza Shatzman
Aliza Shatzman, President and Founder of The Legal Accountability Project, speaks with Karyn Polak, Founder and President of Shift the Prism and LAP Board Member, about judicial accountability and how to protect law clerks from workplace mistreatment. They discuss the scope of the problem, including gender discrimination and harassment, and Aliza offers suggestions for what members of the legal profession can do to help.
Aliza Shatzman - On the Record
LAP’s President and Founder, Aliza Shatzman, speaks with Allison Stewart to share her experience with a judicial clerkship and how it motivated her to start the Legal Accountability Project.
How Aliza Shatzman Is Fighting for Accountability and Change in the Judiciary
LAP’s President and Founder, Aliza Shatzman, speaks with Paul Edgar about how her own negative clerkship experience drove her to foster positive experiences for clerks nationwide while extending support and resources to those who don’t.
Why Judges Should Take the Legal Accountability Project Pledge
LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman and LAP board member Judge Douglas R. M. Nazarian visit the Texas Appellate Law Podcast to speak with co-hosts Todd Smith and Jody Sanders about LAP, the LAP Pledge, and LAP’s Clerkships Database launch.
Judge Nazarian to Judges: Take the Accountability Pledge
LAP board member Judge Douglas R. M. Nazarian visits the California Appellate Law Podcast to speak with co-hosts Tim Kowal and Jeff Lewis about LAP, the LAP Pledge, and LAP’s Clerkships Database launch.
Empowering Change: Updates from the Legal Accountability Project with Aliza Shatzman
LAP’s President and Founder, Aliza Shatzman, sits down with Sarah Cottrell to update listeners about LAP’s work and accomplishments since her last appearance on The Former Lawyer Podcast.
Who Can Hold Judges Accountable? with Aliza Shatzman
LAP’s President and Founder, Aliza Shatzman, discusses judicial accountability and LAP's unprecedented step to ensure transparency, equity, and accountability in judicial clerkships as LAP gears up to launch its clerkships database.
Holding the Judiciary Accountable: A Discussion about Law Clerk Harassment w/ Aliza Shatzman
LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visited Ladies Who Law Podcast to chat with Samantha and Haylie about all things judicial clerkships.
Protecting Law Clerks from Harassment
Whether you go to a T5 law school, a regional law school, or Notre Dame Law School, law students universally lack access to transparent, candid information about judicial clerkships.
LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman spoke with Max Gaston, Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Notre Dame Law School, about judicial accountability, clerkships, and LAP’s legal technology solution to the lack of transparency, diversity and equity, and accountability in the clerkship system.
The Clerkship Whisper Network
LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visits Right To Be Heard, the Columbia Law Review podcast, to speak with CLR editor Jafar Khalfani-Bey ‘24 about Aliza’s CLR article, The Clerkships Whisper Network: What It Is, Why It’s Broken, and How To Fix It.
Harassment in the Judiciary with Aliza Shatzman
LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visits Feminist Law Podcast to speak with Clara Topiol about her experiences as a judicial law clerk, judicial misconduct, and what can be done about it. They also discuss Aliza’s article with the UCLA Journal of Gender & Law, “Untouchable Judges? What I’ve Learned About Harassment in the Judiciary, and What We Can Do To Stop It.”
Aliza Shatzman on the Clerkships Whisper Network
LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman returns to Ipse Dixit to speak with LAP board member Peter Romer-Friedman about her article with the Columbia Law Review, The Clerkships Whisper Network: What It Is, Why It’s Broken, and How To Fix It.
Aliza Shatzman - The Legal Accountability Project
LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visited Legal Tenzer podcast to speak with Prof Leslie Y. Garfield Tenzer. Aliza shares her clerkship experience, her work with LAP, and her insights about ensuring a positive clerkship experience.
The Legal Accountability Project with Aliza Shatzman
LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visited The Newfangled Lawyer Podcast to speak with Patrick Patino about how she’s disrupting the status quo and upending the clerkship system in order to correct injustices in the judiciary and legal profession.
Clerkships and Holding Judges Accountable
LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visited The Justice Podcast to speak with Bobby Stroup about her work to improve the clerkship system and hold judges accountable for misconduct.
Demystifying Judicial Clerkships with Aliza Shatzman
It’s been a while since LAP’s President and Founder Aliza Shatzman thought about the LSAT.
On LSAT Demon’s Thinking LSAT podcast, Aliza demystified judicial clerkships for a prelaw audience and explained how LAP is working to improve the clerkship system for the next generation of legal professionals.
Bringing Transparency to Judicial Clerkships
The legal profession places an enormous premium on getting judicial clerkships, which usually offer both valuable learning experiences and a major boost to a young lawyer’s future prospects. But, are there potential downsides to clerkships? Some law clerks have a wonderful experience, but too many have had an experience marked by harassment and mistreatment at the hands of an abusive judge. Molly Ranns and JoAnn Hathaway welcome Aliza Shatzman to talk about her personal story and her efforts to bring transparency and awareness about the full range of clerkship experiences to lift current stigmas and prevent future judiciary workplace mistreatment.
Leading by Advocating for Change with Aliza Shatzman
LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visited Lawyers Who Lead to speak with Sigalle Barness. Aliza shares how her clerkship experience quickly became one of mistreatment and harassment. Realizing there were no resources to support or protect her, Aliza persevered by filing a judicial complaint, advocating for legislation to extend to law clerks and federal public defenders, and ultimately creating a platform to provide more transparency and accountability for in the clerkship system. Aliza's story shows how speaking up about our personal experiences, even when faced with those who hold more power than us, can create real and systemic change.
Aliza Shatzman on the Joshua Wright Allegations and Law School Culture
LAP President and Founder Aliza Shatzman visited Strangers on the Internet podcast to discuss the sexual misconduct allegations involving former GMU Law professor Joshua Wright.